Doors 7 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m.
At the Granada Theater (the renovated former Suburban World Theater)
Public on-sale on Friday, Sept. 23, at 10 a.m.

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THE SUBURBS

Often described as a Midwest Roxy Music, The 'Burbs have been making their unique punk-pop-art-dance records and performing off and on ever since the ‘Minneapolis Sound’ heyday.

Founded in 1977, The Suburbs are recognized worldwide as among the original heroes of the "Minneapolis Sound”; a historic music era that saw the emergence of other bands like The Suicide Commandos, Prince, The Replacements and Husker Du.    

Led now by original keyboardist and singer Chan Poling, original drummer Hugo Klaers, and longtime saxophonists Max Ray (also of The Wallets), they are augmented by a supergroup of newcomers: Stevie Brantseg and Jeremy Ylvisaker on guitars, Steve Price on bass, Janey Winterbauer on backup vocals, Rochelle Becker on Bari Sax and Stephen Kung on horns and keys.

The Suburbs continue to entertain at the highest level and remain one of the most creative and vital bands out there today, honoring their past and blazing into the future.

CINDY LAWSON
New Tricks is a long awaited collection of songs written and performed by Cindy Lawson, who has the distinction of being both an important part of Minnesota music history and completely up to date as gifted vocalist and talented songwriter absent from the scene far too long. Her performance bona fides have been hard earned dating back to the early eighties in jazz and r & b bands knocking out four sets a night in hotel lounges and cocktail bars, tirelessly honing her vocal skills with jobbing professional musicians infusing all of the emotion she could in sometimes indifferent material, designed to be aural wallpaper to augment the conversation of passive audiences. Her new collection (with more to come) is more reflective, poetic, melodic and pissed off than ever, in the best way possible. The voice never left her and she’s raising it the skill she honed those years in the lounges, the swagger she discovered those years in The Clams, the pain and joy she experienced years after and the wisdom to know whatever the subject, the experience, the reflection, her aim is to target compassion versus indifference, empathy versus cruelty and love versus it’s cold absence, but being an ever accomplished Songwriter, never Verse Versus Chorus. Whatever love, life, or the world throw at Cindy Lawson, it isn’t writing on the wall, but a couplet for her next song. Because, what are slings and arrows, to someone with so many words and music in her quiver? Cindy Lawson is up to New Tricks.